The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Whittington, sentence 33
So home he went, and happily got into the house and about his business before Mrs. Cicely made her appearance.
Who acts: Lord, Mrs. · What happens: go, get, make · To what, where: house, appearance
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Whittington. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lord, Mrs.), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 2 | home | home | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 got | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 got | cc |
| 7 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 8 got | advmod |
| 8 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 house | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 house | det |
| 11 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 got | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 business | cc |
| 13 | about | about | ADP | _ | 15 business | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 business | nmod:poss |
| 15 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 house | conj |
| 16 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 19 made | mark |
| 17 | Mrs. | Mrs. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 made | nsubj |
| 18 | Cicely | Cicely | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Mrs. | flat |
| 19 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 got | advcl |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 appearance | nmod:poss |
| 21 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 made | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Lord | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | get | past | Lord not said here | the house and Lord's business | happily property | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into house=Destination | |||
| 3 | make | past | Mrs. | Mrs.'s appearance | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent appearance=Product |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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